The Liberian Coast Guard is reporting a successful operation working with the neighboring countries of Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone to capture a ban.
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After a relative calm, there were three piracy incidents in recent days in the Gulf of Guinea coming after security services had again issued a warnin.
In October 2021, a U.S. National Security Council (NSC) staffer traveled to Equatorial Guinea amidst troubling reports that China was being offered a naval base there. The story broke in December as U.S. efforts to prevent China’s acquisition of the base were failing. Little is publicly known of what has been offered to China, but if such a proposal came to fruition, it would allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to conduct sustained naval operations closer to the U.S. than ever before.